The Spanish Tourism Industry
Spain has long been the European centre for package tourism. Miles of
beautiful sandy beaches along with crystal clear waters of the
Mediterranean attracted tourists from the 1950's onwards. Little
fishing villages have grown to be massive concrete disasters filled to
the brim with linear 1970's hotels along the sea. This steady
progression from idyllic white walls with clay roofs to cabaret
evenings and Tourist "tack" has taken 56 years but has it finally
reached it pinnacle?
The Spanish tourist industry is worth over 6 billion pounds, 6 billion
of this comes from the United Kingdom each year. Spain was until the
1950's a mainly agricultural country relying on exports such as
cloths, fruits and fish. The area known as Andalusia or more commonly
the Costa del Sol is the heart of Spain's tourist industry. Malaga and
Nerja are two of the biggest areas of tourism. There are three other
areas in Spain that experience high levels of tourism these are Costa
Blanca, Costa Dorada and Costa Brava.
100 years ago the highest density population Was to be found around
the city of Seville and Madrid, now with the influx of cheap flights
and mass tourism with package deals the coasts where born into a new
stage of development. Hundreds of thousands of former hill workers
moved to the coast in search of jobs within tourism or land to develop
for the tourism. This was the start of the concrete boulevard. Even
though this mass migration within Spain happened the employment tare
of these costal resorts is only 40% due to the seasonal effect on
business. The start of this boom will also be its demise, the ex-world
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...g people in search of summer jobs. The fact is more people now
arrive in the Spanish airports looking to buy houses or invest in
timeshares than actually want to stay in a resort. This will be the
start of a slow demise for the costal tourist industry in Spain.
Spain's hopeful saviour will be green tourism; this is the new breed
of tourists that come to visits sites such as the Alhambra palace or
Spain's magnificent caves. Along with new interests such as cycling,
walking or canoeing holidays that pull in the younger age groups
looking for a healthier holiday.
In conclusion for Spain to revive its tourist industry it will have to
clean the heavily polluted waters of the Mediterranean and shake of
this image of a holiday place for club 18-30. This is what is
deterring the masses of families and middle aged tourists.
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